I Broke Off My Engagement to the Top Scholar and Married a War God, Becoming the Richest Woman

Merchant’s daughter Shen Zhiyi is reborn on the journey to her wedding with the top scholar. She knows all too well that the road ahead leads to her family’s bankruptcy, an empty dowry, and her eventual murder at the hands of her husband’s family. To find a way to survive, she acts decisively and stages a robbery along the way, “offering” herself and her supposedly “unimaginably vast” fake dowry to Prince Jing, Lu Yan, the God of War, who is struggling to fund his troops. Lu Yan is skeptical, but with an urgent problem to solve, he goes along with it and marries her. After the wedding, faced with the eager expectations of the entire prince’s estate, Shen Zhiyi can only stall by claiming that “the dowry is still on the way.” Using her status as Prince Jing’s wife and a fake dowry inventory as collateral, she launches a thrilling scheme to “make something out of nothing” in the capital. From issuing “princely estate bonds” to opening a “royal auction house,” she turns one lie after another into real silver with business methods far ahead of their time. Lu Yan goes from watching her coldly, to being astonished by her financial wizardry, to willingly shielding her from harm. Their relationship, too, shifts from a mere transaction into a genuine bond between equals, along with real affection. At the climactic moment, when all their enemies join forces to expose her earth-shattering fraud in court, Shen Zhiyi reveals a real empire of wealth even greater than the legends claimed. She not only wins over the God of War, but also becomes the hidden queen who controls the dynasty’s economic lifeline.